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It's Check-in Time! Time for you to share with the rest of us the goals you did or didn't accomplish over the week and the goals you have planned for the coming week! Excitement! Joy! Screaming like a little girl with glee!

Be as specific as possible. Without concrete criteria, it's more difficult to determine if you've actually met your goals for the week.

Be realistic. Do you really have time to write 10,000 words this week?

Consider how much time you can dedicate to writing this week and build your goals from that.

If you need assistance making goals, Wikipedia's list on SMART goals can help with that.

So I checked in last week, I'm a day late. I fell short of my 4800 words goal. This is the first time I've concentrated on it, so I'm OK with that. It was kind of a test week anyway. I did complete ~3500 words, so that's my goal for next week. I'm gonna ramp it up slowly over time. I wrote 3 poems, so I met that goal, and only wrote one journal entry, so I changed my goal to 1 for this week as well, again, I'll ramp it up as time goes on.

TL;DR: short on story word count, journal entries, made poems count. Readjusted goals for habit forming and eventual ramping.

This summer has been crazy. Lost my job, wife and I decided to move to Idaho and sell the house. I took a temp job with an incredibly restrictive IP contract (I basically cannot publish anything while I work for them). It's been chaos and writing has been extremely difficult.

That being said, I have finished yet another revision of the sequel to my first book.

BLOOM is now up for free on amazon until the 30th and while I didn't see a dime, I consider the 2600 or so downloads a huge success. At it's peak it was #130 on Free kindle, #2 in Fairy Tales and Mythology and #4 in free horror. So yay.